Twentieth Century Music Facsimiles & OMI - Old Manuscripts & Incunabula PO Box 6019 FDR Station, New York NY 10150 selected editions tel/fax 212/ 758-1946 • www.omifacsimiles.com • [email protected] 9 September 2021 Contemporary Music. Manuscript facsimiles (autographs & copyist manuscripts), together with a selection of modern editions & studies. For ordering information go to: www.omifacsimiles.com/contactomi.html ALBÉNIZ, Isaac, 1860-1909 835 The Husband’s Grief for Voice and Piano / A férj keserve. Énekhangra 716 Iberia. Revisión integral de Guillermo González. Edición facsímil de los zongorakísérettel. [Edited by Peter Bartók]. manuscritos y estudio histórico-documental a cargo de Jacinto Torres. Homosassa, 2002. 4˚, 16 pp. Line-cut of the autograph composing copy, together Madrid, 1998. 31 x 41 cm, vi, 161 facs, xlii pp. Color facsimile of the working (and with a new practical edition. The composer’s last arrangement of a folk song written final) autograph copy now dispersed among four libraries. This collection of 12 in 1945–a Ukranian song with humorous text about a man and his wife who can movements, a masterpiece of the piano repertoire composed in 1905 and 1908, never completely agree with one another. For tenor or mezzo soprano. Wrappers. evince the technical heights of the postromantic piano. Handsome binding with $11 orange cloth boards, gold lettering and pasted illustration by Laura Albéniz (from the first edition of Iberia, Paris, 1906-7). Commentary in Sp-Eng. Linen. $229 http://www.omifacsimiles.com/brochures/albeniz.html 886 Liebeslieder for Voice and Piano (1900). Facsimile of the Manuscript. Homosassa, 2002. 4°. 24 pp. A work from the composer's youth, of 19 years, written as a present to a young lady. The composer did not regard this work suitable for BARTÓK, Béla, 1881-1945 general publication and is presented here for academic purposes only, without right 890 Duke Bluebeard’s Castle Opus 11, 1911. Autograph Draft. Edited by of performance. Facsimile of the manuscript, with an introductory essay by Ferenc László Vikárius. Bónis. Song texts in German, with literal English translation. Wrappers. $20 Budapest, 2006. 4°, 58, 51 pp. Full-color facsimile of the autograph working copy (short score). Issued on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Cloth. $135 http://www.omifacsimiles.com/brochures/bartok_dbc.html 785 [Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste. Sz.106] Musik für Saiteninstrumente, Schlagzeug und Celesta. Faksimile des Partiturautographs und der Skizzen. Herausgegeben von Felix Meyer. 441 [Concerto, viola, orch, draft] Eine Publikation der Paul Sacher Stiftung. Basel, 2000. 30 x 40 cm, 176 pp (103 Concerto for Viola and Orchestra. Facsimile of the Autograph Draft, with facs). Beautiful color halftone of the autograph score of one of the towering an Introduction by Laszlo Somfai. Preface by Peter Bartók. New Fair Copy masterpieces of 20th-century music. Originally commissioned by Paul Sacher in of the Autograph by Nelson Dellamaggiore. 1936 for the tenth-anniversary of the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the work was Homosassa, 1995. 28 x 40 cm, 16 facs, 80 pp. Full-color facsimile of the composing supposed to be "for strings alone" and "not too difficult technically". Bartók, (short) score written in 1944 in New York (and Saranac Lake), which, along with the vacationing at the time in Braunwald, Switzerland eagerly accepted the task. The Third Piano Concerto, is the composer’s last work. The concerto, a commission of manuscript is an unusual draft and faircopy in a single document. This stunning the violist William Primrose, although “complete”, was not scored by Bartók (the bibliophile edition consists of an introduction by Felix Meyer accompanied by composer referred to its orchestration as “mechanical work”), and surely many numerous reproductions of period documents and photographs, and a full facsimile details and modifications would have occurred when he transferred the composition of the score—including 31 "discarded" pages provided as a supplement. It was onto the final score paper. That task was later completed by Tibor Serly. With this published as a tribute to the memory of Paul Sacher and a celebration of sorts for the facsimile we can finally answer the question, how much is Bartók, and what details transfer (on loan) of the original manuscript from Peter Bartók to the Sacher come from Serly. With preface by Peter Bartók and commentary provided in Foundation Library. Introduction in Ger-Eng. Handsome binding in red linen, with Eng-Hung-Ger-Jap-Sp. Hardbound in black, with gold lettering. Special OMI price matching slipcase. $254 http://www.omifacsimiles.com/brochures/bartok_mspc.html (reg. $100). $80 http://www.omifacsimiles.com/brochures/bartok_vc.html 124 [Sonata, piano, Sz.80] 762 Dance Suite for Orchestra. Reprint of the Original Manuscript (Budapest Sonata (1926). Piano Solo. Facsimile Edition of the Manuscript (National Historical Museum). Edited by Ferenc Bónis. Széchényi Library, Budapest) with a Commentary by László Somfai. Budapest, 1998. 26 x 34 cm, 2 vols, 66 facs, 48 pp. 3-color halftone of the Budapest, 1980. 30 x 42 cm, iv, 16 facs, viii pp. Beautiful halftone in the original 30 autograph full score fair copy, completed Aug. 19, 1923. The work was written on x 42 cm format of the composer’s second draft, the version Bartók used in commission to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the union of Buda and Pest. preparation for the work’s performance in 1926 in Budapest, he himself at the The composer does not make use of real peasant melodies but rather invents folk keyboard. 1926 was a banner year for Bartók, a year that saw the composition of songs as a unifying device; the Dance Suite represents the first time in which this Nine Little Pieces, Out of Doors Suite, Piano Concerto No.1, and the Piano Sonata principle was used for an entire symphonic cycle. The commentary volume explores (Sz.80). According to Andrew Rangell the sonata represents a “radical departure from the cultural millieu of Budapest in the twenties, the work’s genesis, compositional his overtly folk-based pieces of the previous decade”. Issued on the occasion of the sources, and reproduces 7 B/W plates of other autograph material. Bound in black 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Cloth. cloth with gold lettering (commentary booklet in wrappers). Colorful portfolio with http://www.omifacsimiles.com/brochures/bartok_ps.html pasted title. $118 http://www.omifacsimiles.com/brochures/bartok_ds.html 122 [& Zoltán Kodály] Hungarian Folksongs for Song with Piano. Reprint of the Original Manuscript with Commentaries by Dennijs Dille. [Ms. Bartók Archives, Budapest]. Budapest, 1970. 29 x 41 cm, 22 facs, 26 pp. Halftone of the autograph. Includes rough draft of the Felhívás (The Appeal). Preface and commentary in Eng. $45 OMI - Old Manuscripts & Incunabula • tel/fax 212/ 758-1946 • www.omifacsimiles.com • [email protected] 20th century, p.2 958 [Sonata, 2 pianos, percussion, Sz.110, BB115] BERG, Alban, 1885-1935 Sonate für zwei Klaviere und Schlagzeug. Faksimile des Partiturentwurfs 922 [Concerto, violin, orchestra] und der annotierten Partiturkopie Paul Sachers / Sonata for Two Pianos Violinkonzert. Faksimile nach dem Autograph der Library of Congress, and Percussion. Facsimile of the Draft Score and Paul Sacher's Annotated Washington. Full Score Copy. Edited by Felix Meyer. Mit einem Kommentar von Douglas Jarman. Eine Publikation der Paul Sacher Stiftung. London, 2018. 30 x 39 cm, 169 pp. Meisterwerke der Musik im Faksimile, 22. Laaber, 2011. 4°, xv, 96 pp. Full-color Beautiful color halftone of the autograph draft score. Béla Bartók's Sonata for Two facsimile of the autograph dated August 11, 1935. The work was written on Pianos and Percussion, composed in summer 1937 on a commission from Paul commission from the violinist Louis Krasner, but is was the death of Manon Gropius Sacher and premièred in Basel in January 1938, is incontestably one of the supreme (daugther of Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius) that was the main impetus for Berg, creations of modern music. This publication, with introductory essays by Felix setting aside work on Lulu, to complete the concerto. It was dedicated “To the Meyer, Robert W. Wason, Lászlo Vikárius, and Wolfgang Rathert, presents two major memory of an angel”. Introduction in Ger-Eng. Hardbound. $249 handwritten sources for this work from the holdings of the Paul Sacher Foundation: http://www.omifacsimiles.com/brochures/berg_vc.html the draft score, which offers a fascinating glimpse into the sonata’s genesis, and a “whiteprint” of the fair copy, which contains additions from Bartók and differs 352 substantially from the definitive version at the end of the development section in Hier ist Friede, Op.4, No.5. Eigenhändiges Arrangement des movement 1. The volume also contains a CD of the radio recording of 1940, with Orchesterliedes für Klavier, Harmonium, Violine und Violoncello. Bartók and his wife Ditta Pásztory playing the piano parts, as well as a new recording Faksimile des Autographs in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. of the sonata in its “original” form, played by the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo with Veröffentlichungen der Kommission Bayern-Harvard zur Musikgeschichte des 20. percussionists Matthias Würsch and Christian Dierstein. Linen. $135 Jahrhundert, 2. Vienna, 1989. 26 x 36 cm, iv, 6 pp. Beautiful 2 color line-cut of the http://www.omifacsimiles.com/brochures/bartok_sop2.html autograph fair copy arranged for chamber ensemble. Introduction in Ger-Eng by Reinhold Brinkmann and Siegfried Mauser. Folder. $39 939 [Sonata, violin, Sz.117] Sonate für Violine solo Sz 117 / BB 124). Faksimile nach dem Autograph 442 Hier ist Friede, Op.4, No.5. Eigenhändiges Arrangement des aus der Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel. Herausgegeben und kommentiert von Orchesterliedes für Klavier, Harmonium, Violine und Violoncello. Stefen Drees. Faksimile des Autographs in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Meisterwerke der Musik im Faksimile, 26. Laaber, 2017. 28 x 32 cm, xxi, 18 pp.